ntfs________denied

[David Abbott]

Hi there.
I'm not in a position to reformat my drive at this stage to be FAT,
as I am in the middle of a job.
I would love to be able to pull across files from my storage partition but
the standard stuff doesn't seem to be working for me.
If you could have a look over this and tell me what is up it would be
appreciated.

Firstly I did the

yum install kernel-module-ntfs-$(uname -r)

Which successfully installed the matching kernel for my kernel.
I should now be able to read my ntfs drive although it is not listed in:

[root at localhost /]# cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sysfs
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev binfmt_misc
nodev debugfs
nodev usbfs
nodev pipefs
nodev futexfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev inotifyfs
nodev eventpollfs
nodev devpts
ext2
nodev ramfs
nodev hugetlbfs
iso9660
nodev mqueue
nodev selinuxfs
ext3
nodev rpc_pipefs
nodev autofs

so I do this anyway:

[root at localhost /]# /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 7 1281 10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 1282 12160 87385567+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1282 1663 3068383+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 1664 2938 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2939 3448 4096543+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 3449 12160 69979108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

and attempt to mount and get:

[root at localhost /]# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/windows_disk -t ntfs
mount: mount point /mnt/windows_disk does not exist
[root at localhost /]# mnt/windows/
mnt/windows/: Permission denied.
[root at localhost /]# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/windows -t ntfs
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
missing codepage or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so:

o.k so......

[root at localhost /dev]# dmesg | tail
SELinux: initialized (dev sda5, type ntfs), uses genfs_contexts
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is
invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option
errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is
invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option
errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is
invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option
errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

Humph.....
What's with that..?

Is there a way around this?
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